BREAKING -- IG knew @SecretService texts from Jan 6 had been wiped in February ... but didn't tell Cong

[demmiblue]

BREAKING — IG knew @SecretService texts from Jan 6 had been wiped in February … but didn’t tell Congress . That’s despite the fact that multiple committees were actively investigating Jan 6 and seeking those records w @mariasacchetti

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A watchdog agency learned in February that the Secret Service had purged nearly all cellphone texts from around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but chose not to alert Congress, according to three people briefed on the internal discussions.

That watchdog agency, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, also prepared in October 2021 to issue a public alert that the Secret Service and other department divisions were stonewalling it on requests for records and texts surrounding the attack on the Capitol, but did not do so, the people briefed on the matter said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal investigations.

The previously unreported revelation about the inspector general’s months-long delay in flagging the now-vanished Secret Service texts came from two whistleblowers who have worked with Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari, the people knowledgeable about the internal discussions said.

In recent days, one former employee approached the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), an independent government-accountability group, and described the decision from Cuffari’s office not to promptly disclose that Secret Service records had been wiped from agency phones starting in January 2021. The group relayed the information to congressional staff, who independently corroborated the account with a second whistleblower.

[SheltieLover]

1. Lock him up!

[uponit7771]

2. Just ... damn,

[Bev54]

3. Whoa, is he trying to do a cya now, by going to congress?

[Cha]

4. Well Thank Goodness For the

Whistle BLOWERS!

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[gab13by13]

5. Jan. 6th, 2021.

We also knew about the fake electors in Jan. of 2021, it only took DOJ a year and a half to investigate them after getting a criminal referral from the Michigan AG.

[madaboutharry]

6. Why are so many incompetent people working in government?

You would think the vetting process would weed out some of these clowns. But no, they still get jobs where their incompetence has consequences.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. That question is why Reagan succeeded on vilifying our own government.

It was his most damaging statement...

[dlk]

20. Reagan was the head of the government...

This had to be the most nonsensical political statement, ever, almost as if it was a psy op. This was the beginning of Republicans being completely divorced from the facts.

[ShazzieB]

23. I don't even need to watch this.

I'm all too familiar with this, and I know the exact quote by heart. It was B.S. then and still is, and after all these years, it STILL makes me want to punch him right in his smarmy, rosy-cheeked face.

One of the worst things about Ray Gun, imo, was the fake charm he always oozed. It gave me the creeps, because I could see right through the fakeness. He was like a shiny, red apple that looked juicy and delicious but was actually rotten inside. This clip is a perfect example of why I hated him then and still do.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

29. I read a book of compiled letters of his.

It swayed me. And I had been a Registered Democrat.

My regrets know no bounds.

[cloudboy07]

11. how many have a G.E.D. certificate? Bang bang does !

[MLAA]

14. Not incompetent, in my opinion, criminal.

[dchill]

17. Yes. They're not so incompetent at criming...

But, hopefully, incompetent enough. Jury's out.

[SouthBayDem]

27. Joseph Cuffari has a PhD from a diploma mill

https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2022/02/homeland-securitys-embattled-watchdog-faces-probe

Cuffari’s former deputy and others were leery of his nomination as inspector general. Among other issues, they raised concerns that a then-unaccredited university with a reputation as a “diploma mill” had awarded him a doctorate in 2002. Despite the criticism, Cuffari regularly references his PhD when signing letters to Congress and on OIG reports.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/the-dhs-inspector-general-claimed-to-have-a-philosophy-phd-he-doesnt/

Cuffari’s PhD from California Coast University is in management, and it was conferred by a school that was unaccredited at the time. In 2004, two years after Cuffari received the degree, the Government Accountability Office prominently featured California Coast University in a report on unaccredited “diploma mills” that required no classroom instruction and issued degrees for low flat fees.

[SunSeeker]

33. In the case of the IG and SS agents, it's corruption, not incompetence.

The vast majority of government workers know how to do their jobs.

[867-5309.]

7. Joe can fire the head of this agency, I believe

If true that has to be considered.

[NullTuples]

16. If true he should've done so long ago

IG Joseph Cuffari was put in place by Trump & the Federalist Society.

Prior to that he worked for Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey & Gov. Jan Brewer.

Nobody from the Trump Administration can be nor should be trusted and needs to be purged to protect our democracy.

[BOSSHOG]

8. Gosh, just wait till Jim Jordan is in charge

He’ll get to the bottom of this outrage. He will call howdy doody gowdy as an expert on malfeasance. THE GOP IS A CRIME FAMILY.

[dchill]

18. It actually makes me ill to think about that. 🤮

[ultralite001]

10. The WaPo...

Gifted... No paywall...

https://wapo.st/3Pnj1tS

[KPN]

12. Yeah, different agency but same executive branch of government:

but a supposedly (but wrongly) new cache of Hillary Clinton emails just had to be disclosed to Congress about 7 days before the Nov 2016 election.

These ideologues need rooted out of decision-making roles in the executive branch — right now!

[spanone]

13. The Rot is Deep

[SergeStorms]

15. Time for some heads to roll.

These people have to answer to Congress and the people of the United States, and this citizen of the United States is PISSED OFF!

[dchill]

19. This, too, must not go unpunished.

[dchill]

21. To be clear - are we talking about February 2021 or 2022?

Asking for a friend.

[SunSeeker]

22. Every single member of the Secret Service who failed to preserve Jan 6 texts must be fired.

Everyone from the coffee boy to SS Director James Murray, who is still Director until 7/30/22, even though he announced his retirement on 7/7/22.

[SunSeeker]

26. They didn't just go rogue, they covered up sedition.

How can any SS agent who detected J6 texts be trusted? They are no longer qualified for the job. They must he fired.

[Calista241]

28. The way they presented this was that it was a system upgrade that deleted the texts.

So it’s a bunch of IT peons that you want fired. Likely not the people that sent or received the texts, or the management or lawyers that may have had something to hide.

[SunSeeker]

30. Wrong. SS AGENTS failed to follow repeated instructions to preserve texts.

This is not some nebulous "system" that suddenly deleted the texts without anyone's knowledge. SS Agents and everyone else at the Secret Service were given repeated notifications about the upcoming phone upgrade, and specifically told to preserve all data from Jan.6, and were given instructions on how to preserve that data. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/secret-service-was-told-least-jan-6-2021-preserve-texts-rcna39129

Anyone at the Secret Service who failed to preserve the data on their phones is either atrociously incompetent and derelict in their duties, or complicit in a sedition coverup. Either way, they should be fired.

[Historic NY]

25. This is really becoming quite a conspiracy

[Kablooie]

31. Biden should have fired every single person selected by Trump

And any that are left should be fired right now.
Every single one is corrupt .

[Kid Berwyn]

32. The rot runs deeper.

As more and more ask who is watching the watchers who watch watchers?

[Bread and Circuses]

34. Treasonous Coup by US Intelligence agents

This is my first post as a new member, although I've been reading DU for years.
I've reflected upon what would cause me to join and share my thoughts.
And, now, gathered with allies I arrive.

I am a mellow, low-keyed type. So when I say that this is the exact moment in the course of the democracy that screaming from the rooftops and banging pots and pans are not only recommended but required! The USA is indeed under attack right now. There are traitors entrenched across all facets of the country's military, intelligence, political, judicial, law enforcement and civilian sectors. They are in positions of authority and leadership. This treasonous syndicate aims to undermine the electoral process and the provisions enshrined in the Bill of Rights and Constitution...for starters.

I'll end now as I do not want to loose your attention. Thanks for reading.

Thank you DU Community!

[hwmnbn]

35. Spot on...

and welcome to DU!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

37. Some people need to be Fired !

a crime and a cover up